LEADER 02783 am 22006133u 450 001 9910156176503321 005 20220530044713.0 010 $a1-925377-60-1 010 $a1-925377-31-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000985437 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4773014 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5437544 035 $a(OCoLC)967589463 035 $a(ScCtBLL)22d35042-ffe4-4b8c-8156-525da273c219 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000985437 100 $a20180801d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aConceiving the goddess $etransformation and appropriation in Indic religions /$fedited by Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat and Ian Mabbett 210 1$aClayton, Victoria, Australia :$cMonash University Publishing,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (314 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 311 $a1-925377-61-X 311 $a1-925377-30-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aConceiving the Goddess is an exploration of goddess cults in South Asia that embodies research on South Asian goddesses in various disciplines. The theme running through all the contributions, with their multiple approaches and points of view, is the concept of appropriation, whereby one religious group adopts a religious belief or practice not formerly its own. What is the motivation behind this? Are such actions attempts to dominate, or to resist the domination of others, or to adapt to changing social circumstances ? or perhaps simply to enrich the religious experience of a group?s members? In examining these questions, Conceiving the Goddess considers a range of settings: a Jain goddess lurking in a Brahminical temple, the fraught relationship between the humble Cam?r caste and the river goddess Ga?g?, the mutual appropriation of disciple and goddess in the tantric exercises of Kashmiri ?aivism, and the alarming self-decapitation of the fierce goddess Chinnamast?. 606 $aGoddesses, Indic$zSouth Asia 608 $aElectronic books. 610 0$awomen and religion 610 0$aChinnamast?? 610 0$aDurg? 610 0$aDev? 610 0$a?aktip??ha 610 0$aKuladaivata 610 0$aPur??ic narrative 610 0$aRavid?s 610 0$aGa?g? 610 0$aJainism 610 0$aPuja (Hinduism) 610 0$aShiva 615 0$aGoddesses, Indic 676 $a294.082 702 $aBapat$b Jayant Bhalchandra$f1938- 702 $aMabbett$b Ian W. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910156176503321 996 $aConceiving the goddess$91988323 997 $aUNINA